When was the last time you felt…
- at home in your body?
- at peace with your body?
- healthy in your body?
- healed in your body?
Many of my patients and clients hold deep feelings of shame and betrayal in their bodies.
I understand this feeling more than you might realize…
When was the last time you felt…
- at home in your body?
- at peace with your body?
- healthy in your body?
- healed in your body?
Many of my patients and clients hold deep feelings of shame and betrayal in their bodies.
I understand this feeling more than you might realize…
But that wasn’t always the case.
Finding a different way
Live and enjoy
ALL DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
But that wasn’t always the case.
Finding a different way
Live and enjoy
ALL DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
Larisa Gaitour,
MD, DO, IFMCP
Credentials and professional background.
- Founded True Health, P.C., a functional medicine practice - serving patients in NJ, NY, FL via telemedicine
- Certified in Functional Medicine by The Institute of Functional Medicine
- Certified by the Kalish Institute For Functional Medicine
- Doctor Of Medicine (MD) from the State Institute of Medicine, Moldova
- Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from NYCOM of NYIT
- Trained in cardiology, Moscow, Russia
- Trained in PM&R, RUSK/NYU Langone Medical Center, NY
Larisa Gaitour, MD, DO, IFMCP
Functional Medicine physician
Credentials and professional background:
- Founder and CEO of True Health, P.C. Serving patients in NJ/NY/FL via telemedicine
- Certified in Functional Medicine by The Institute of Functional Medicine
- Doctor Of Medicine (MD) from Kishinev Institute of Medicine
- Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from NYCOM of NYIT
- Trained in cardiology, Moscow, Russia
- Trained in PM&R, RUSK/NYU Langone Medical Center, NY
Graduate of
• The Institute for Functional Medicine
• Kalish Institute of Functional Medicine
Residency training in
• Cardiology, Moscow, Russia
• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
at Rusk/NYU Langone Medical Center
She earned her
• Medical Degree from the
• Institute of Medicine In Chisinau, Moldova
• Doctor of Osteopathy from
NYCOM of NYIT.
Dr. Larisa has been helping patients regain their function
after they’ve experienced significant functional decline
in their health regardless of the diagnosis.
She is passionate about helping people
regain health and get to the root cause
of their issues.
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Today, I use my experience to look for the root cause: what I like to call “the deepest why.”
That means I look at my patient’s lifestyle, what they’ve been eating, what they’ve been exposed to and their mindset.
I also want to know about their heart, their fears and the places inside that feel unheard, unseen and unloved.
I ask the deeper questions that their conventional doctors just won’t ask.
I use functional medicine labs if needed especially when conventional labs look normal to get to the root cause of their symptoms.
The tools for radical self-healing
What is functional medicine?
Compared to conventional (allopathic) medicine, functional medicine is built on the foundation that the body has an innate ability to heal itself.
Functional Medicine focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause(s) that create symptoms, instead of just managing symptoms with medications.
Conventional medicine is great at addressing acute and urgent medical needs like acute trauma, broken bones, heart attacks, acute infections and other medical emergencies.
When it comes to chronic, recurrent health conditions though, Functional and Conventional Medicine are quite different in their approach.
A great way to understand the difference between the two is to imagine a leaky roof.
Many conventional doctors and their patients are locked into a never-ending cycle of cleaning up the “wet patches” on the floor from the leaky roof (in other words: pills and medications for specific symptoms), but never go deep enough in their treatment plan or testing to find out why the roof is leaking.
A Functional Medicine practitioner is trained to find out exactly why the roof is leaking in the first place, so we can patch up the holes and avoid the “wet patches” on the floor (in other words: your symptoms)
FUNCTIONAL VS CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
- Addresses the whole person
- Finds the root cause(s)
- The body works synergistically like a series of gears.
- Focus on creating health and vitality
- Gene expression can be altered
- FM labs like organic acids, amino acids tests etc.. are utilised to determine the source and extent of the problem prior to onset of the disease
- Lifestyle & nutrition based
- Promotes empowerment and personal responsibility
CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE
- Addresses isolated set of symptoms
- Symptom management
- The body is a collection of parts operating independently
- Focus on pathology and treating a disease
- Gene expression is not changeable
- Standard conventional labs and diagnostic tests are utilized to establish a diagnosis when disease is already present
- Pharmaceutically based
- Promotes dependence on the system
